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Studies on Breath Control and Mediation
Researchers at the Chopra Center for Wellbeing in Carlsbad, CA, wanted to scientifically verify the health benefits of meditation and controlled breathing. The researchers compared women aged 30 to 60 years old who participated in a program at the Chopra Center. One group meditated and one group did not. Their stay at the Chopra Center lasted five days, and researchers compared their health at the beginning and end of that period. Followup examinations were done one month later, and again 10 months later. Researchers checked certain health markers like blood pressure and stress level.
What was interesting was that while all the participants showed some improvement at the 10-month mark, the women who practiced meditation and mindful breathing improved to a significantly great degree, and reported having overall lower levels of stress and more satisfaction.
Other studies on the effectiveness of meditation and controlled breathing have yielded similar results.
If you haven’t tried meditation, yoga or controlled breathing at least once, you owe it to yourself to at least try. It has helped people take in more oxygen, greatly reduce their stress and improve their overall health for thousands of years, and it will work for you, too.
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Ramona Flowers
Mar 19, 2017 at 12:36 am
As I have read in the Consumer Health Digest, that being on stress increases someone’s cortisone levels. Maybe meditation will be able to help out, Thanks for this, we really need to manage stress as it can affect us in one way or more!